Adams State College

Adams State College is a small state-supported liberal arts college in Alamosa, Colorado, U.S., in the San Luis Valley. ASC is in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference and its mascot is the Grizzly Bear. Adams State was founded in 1921 as a teacher's college but now offers a variety of programs including masters degrees in many fields. Billy Adams, a Colorado legislator who would later become governor, worked for three decades before obtaining the authorization to found Adams State Normal School in 1921. His goal was to educate teachers for remote, rural areas, such as the San Luis Valley. The college's first graduate, in 1926, was Harriett Dalzell Hester, who went on to become the school's librarian and Alamosa County's schools...